Dagnabit, bakin tweneetree wees all wen up tu da moon. By gumbo itas ard werk, fertyet hurs at ah time cuz oxi were so pensi. Bud di we moan an cari abo like fancy dago footballers? Hell na, we tweneetrees donna go in fer yer wumenee hands. We wurk like gooduns, den and na.

Else we're gonna be really really mad, screw up our faces and cry. Then you'll be sorry.

Also, we'll send you to Gitmo.

Amateurs target systems, professionals target people. The weakest part of any IT system is the users. We know all this. For example, Mondays have the most downtime, as they are associated with changes made over the week. A user that installs a gotoassist to 'help' the IT department. Etc etc.

It's one thing to pull yourself up from the bootstraps if you're born uppermiddle class. It's another if you're born lower class. There's a strong argument that it's easier today to move up the social ladder in Europe than the United States. This is appalling.

But it seems to me that since he waited until after he was a billionaire to marry her, she can't claim that his fortune is a marital asset because he earned it before they tied the knot.

LK

So then you're only pretending to be ignorant. Since you are not stupid, it only stands to reason that you hope enough other people are to enact laws that are in clear contravention of the US Constitution.

It's asininity to argue that the same men who wrote about the importance of an armed populace, later went on to write into the supreme law of the land a guarantee of the preservation of that right but that these two events are... coincidental.

The Federal position is that no state or group of states may secede from the Union without a 2/3 majority, just like the way they got in. This wasn't just "We don't like you leaving, so we're going to make you stay". There was a legitimate and arguable legal foundation for the North's position.

Slavery was of secondary importance to the Union. This is evidenced by the fact that not all of the slave states attempted to leave. And in the slave states that did not rebel, Lincoln didn't free the slaves. Why? Because that was less important. It was later handled with a Constitutional amendment, and that had a 2/3 majority vote. It's economic reality that when slavery exists, it has to expand or it will collapse under its own weight. That's why all the north had to do was prevent any other states from becoming slave states and bide their time.

LK

I have a license to carry firearms and have for the past 15 years. If you see me en route to pretty much any place other than work or a bar, I'm carrying. The only thing I loathe more than the cop groupies(I use that term too) are the cops themselves. I know there are people like you describe who take their gun and walk around just waiting or a situation to use it presents itself. I don't much see the point of going into specific details, but I'm rather proactive about vacating the premises when I get the feeling that something is about to happen.

I take the opposite approach. I do not want restrictive gun laws. I do want background checks and long prison terms for gun smugglers and criminals who use guns. If I had to give the cliff's notes version of my position it would be harsh enforcement of the US's gun laws as they stood in 1969. My NRA membership is up for renewal this month. I'll probably renew it. I find myself trapped in between people who I believe are looking to eliminate civilian gun ownership entirely and those who are pushing for no restrictions. In that situation, I feel that my only choice is to side with the anti-ban people.

LK